and it's still been the best at surfacing results for the majority of my queries. DuckDuckGo competes well with it for only a small set of queries (usually programming-related technical things in my experience). Bing is about the same quality as DDG but without being great at programming queries lmao.
one that's new to me is CrowdView. it's geared towards forums and when i'm looking for discussion content, i'm getting consistently higher quality results for anything without having to try appending 5 different terms ("reddit" "discussion" "forum" "reply"). (although in this screenshot the first result is actually completely unrelated lol.) hope this doesn't get swallowed and destroyed by a bigger company!!!
